The Rust Belt Chronicles: communication

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Change is Coming!

Photo credit: Joel Washing.

In less than Sixty years we have witnessed an unbelievable amount of change.

Just to name a few technological advances:

· 78 RPM (monograph) records to MP3's.

· Mono record players to- iPods.

· Antennas receiving 3 television channels to digital cable with hundreds of stations to view.

· Picture tube television sets to HD TV.

· Television stations to Internet TV.

· Rotary phone (one neighborhood shares one phone line) to cell phones.

· Radio station programs to Podcasts.

· Transistor radios to satellite radio.

· Dark room photography developing to instant digital photos.

· Drive-in theaters to home theaters.
Encyclopedias to Wikipedia.

· Personal movies to YouTube.

· Joining organizations to social networking via Twitter and Facebook.

· Shopping centers to online shopping.

· Books to eBooks.

· Hand delivered mail to email.

· Typewriters to keyboards with a brain.

· Researching information at libraries to searching instantly using Google.

I could go on..............

Can you imagine today's society sharing one phone line? Luckily, technology has advanced with a method to communicate, not just a means of accomplishing the feat. Would you wait in a line to use one computer at your business or school? The technology would have died.

The advancement in communications enables us to perform tasks at any particular moment quickly, and practically for free, 24 hours a day. All it takes is an account, a connection, and time.

Look at the amount of change in the way marketing and business operate. Being employed as an encyclopedia salesman, owning a typewriter store or working within a record company wouldn't have been a wise career choice. Many people employed in those markets never saw change coming. Like it or not, change is constant, undeniable, and certain.

Is your business doing things the same old way? Are you operating as if it's business as usual?

Is your vision directed down the road ahead of you or in the rear-view mirror?
If so lookout- change is coming!

Until We Meet Again,
Jim Carver

Author: The Legacy of David A. Wells- The Lexington High School “Band of Gold”
Something Meaningful that Matters!
www.successthroughmusic.com

http://jimcarver.blogspot.com/

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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Whatever Happened to Transparency?

Organizations, businesses and politicians often communicate appearing to care or give you the inside scoop. The problem develops when those words serve to explain little, prompting confusion or mistrust.

There’s a fine line between passing information and communicating in a vacuum.

When addressing the masses don’t presume we are dumb enough to believe “warm fuzzy words” without substance or action.

Anger, frustration, blame and mistrust increases due to spin, half-truths or rhetoric. Eventually customers, employees and voters find it easier to discount anything written or spoken as truth.

Unions, Tea Parties, Occupy Wall Street, and other groups of people have been formed as a result of mistrust. Acts of Civil War have their roots inspired by this powerful cowardly deed.

When a lack of transparency becomes the focal point, secrecy only serves to breath disconnect of epic proportions to your audience.

It’s far better to be transparent, honest and live up to your written or spoken intentions.

Anything less, is hardly worth our time.

How do you feel about this issue? Do you give people, organizations and politicians the benefit of the doubt? Where do you draw the line? Who exemplifies transparency? I’d love to hear your comments.